Captains log - Week 15

This week I attempted to make the inner mechanism to my cube. It was most definitely a failed attempt because I don't know how to model it, and I don't really know what the interior of the inner part looks like because I can't take that part apart. I know I have to use cylinders, and I have to make them lock together and spin, but I don't really know how to do that. Hopefully i'll be able to figure something out at my house because these school computers are getting really hard to work with. Anyways, that's really it for this week.

                          This has been a PSA,
                                                           Captain out

Captains log - Week 14

       This week was kind of a failure. I tried to print my center edge piece, and it came out horribly and didn't even work. I don't know what it is with my models, but there are always issues with the poly's and normals that I don't know how to fix, and I think that's why the print came out funky. I would post a picture of the print, but there's no sense in uploading a picture of a poorly shaped rectangle. I also started working on the actual center piece, but I haven't gotten that far on it yet. Considering we've only had 3 work days this week, not much has gotten one.
Here's a picture of what I've done on the piece so far:

So yea, that's basically the only thing worth showing.

 
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                                                           Captain out

Captains log - Week 13

       Okay, so this week has been huge in terms of progress on my cube. I fixed all of the measurement issues I was having with my center edge piece, and I now know that it will work perfectly in my cube so long that it prints correctly. There may be some poly or normal issues, so i'll have to see about that. But here's a picture of the basically finished center edge piece:

I still have to boolean one side of the piece, but for the most part it's finished. I also know that it fits together nicely with the corner pieces, and I made somewhat of a demo Rubiks Cube to prove that.
Here's some pictures of that:

So yea, that's basically as far as I have gotten so far.

                           This has been a PSA,
                                                           Captain out

Captains log - Week 12

       This post is also late because I was at a college seminar thing during my animating time on Friday of last week, and I didn't even realize I was supposed to post that day until just now. So on week 12 I made huge progress on the center edge piece of my cube. I actually thought that I finished it, but after I did some testing, I realized that I made some issues with my measurements so the piece was actually un-proportional  to the corner piece I already have completed. Due to this mistake, I had to go re-measure the pieces on my real cube to get the correct measurements. I didn't have enough time to put that into action though, but the corrections will be seen on the Week 13 blog.

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                                                           Captain out

Captains log - Week 11

       This weeks post is a little late because my computer was not working on the friday that this was supposed to be posted on, and there were no other open computers to post from. This post may also be slightly shorter because my space bar is only working 30% of the time, which is really annoying and makes me not want to type. Anyways, I don't particularly remember where I was on my project during this week. The past 3 weeks have basically been a big blur of trying to accomplish the same goal. I'm pretty sure I was starting to animate my center edge piece by the end of this week. I'll just post finished product pictures of the piece in my week 13 post.

                      This has been a PSA,
                                                           Captain out

Captains log - Week 10

       This week was very successful in terms of my Rubiks Cube project! I successfully modeled the corner piece to the cube, and I actually got to 3D print it. The cool thing about that is it actually works when I put it into my stock rubiks cube. So I can already tell this project will work out the way I want it to as long as I can model everything correctly. I had some issues with Poly's and normals though, so I have to figure out how to fix that. It caused part of the print to mess up a little bit, but it didn't effect the functionality of the piece. It just messed up the aesthetic view of the whole thing.

                                                   This has been a PSA,
                                                                                      Captain out

Captains log - Week 9

     This week was pretty successful to be quite honest. I mainly worked on my new rubiks cube side project. This week I measured all of the measurements to each individual piece of the rubiks cube, and wrote them down on diagrams I created. Then I decided to make some practice animations, and I think I actually made a use-able piece for the project. I made a center edge piece, and a corner piece. The center edge piece didn't turn out so well, but the corner piece turned out fantastic and I can probably use it for each corner.

If I am able to animate each piece like I did with this one, then I will be able to successfully 3D print my own cube.

This has been a PSA,
                                                           Captain out